Kaysville is a city in
Davis County,
Utah
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. It is part of the
Ogden–Clearfield metropolitan area
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. The population was 32,945 at the time of the
2020 census.
Kaysville is home to the
USU Botanical Gardens, which also serve as an extension location and distance education center for
Utah State University
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.
History
Shortly after Latter Day Saint pioneers arrived in 1847, the Kaysville area, originally known as "Kay's Creek" or Kay's
Ward
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Division or unit
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* Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a pris ...
, was settled by Hector Haight in 1847 as a farming community. He had been sent north to find feed for the stock and soon thereafter constructed a cabin and brought his family to settle the area.
Farmington, Utah
Farmington is a city in, and county seat of, Davis County, Utah, United States. The population was 24,531 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. The Lagoon Amusement Park and Station Park (Farmington, Utah), Station Park transit-oriented ...
also claims Hector Haight as its original settler. Two miles north of Haight's original settlement, Samuel Holmes built a cabin in 1849 and was soon joined by other settlers from
Salt Lake
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, namely Edward Phillips, John Green, and William Kay.
Although settlement began in the 1847, the name of Kaysville connects with the fact that in 1851 William Kay was made the bishop in the vicinity by
Brigham Young
Brigham Young ( ; June 1, 1801August 29, 1877) was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second President of the Church (LDS Church), president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847 until h ...
and
Heber C. Kimball.
After the move south in 1858 (see
Utah War
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), there was an attempt to rename the community "Freedom", but Brigham Young convinced the residents to retain the old name.
In 1868 Kaysville became the first city incorporated in Davis County.
An
adobe
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meetinghouse was built in 1863. It was replaced by the Kaysville Tabernacle in 1914. In 1930 Kaysville had 992 people. Of those residents who were Latter-day Saints, they all were in the Kaysville Ward which also covered most of the rest of the Kaysville Precinct.
In 1977
United Airlines Flight 2860 crashed near Kaysville.
By 2008 there were seven
Mormon
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stakes (similar to a
diocese
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, prov ...
) in Kaysville.
In November 2009, Kaysville voters elected Steve Hiatt as Kaysville City's 38th mayor and the youngest mayor in Utah. He was sworn in on January 4, 2010. He was re-elected for a second four-year term in November 2013.
The current mayor, Tamara Tran, won the 2021 election with 59.95 percent of the popular vote over Jay Welk.
Geography
Kaysville is bordered by the city of
Layton to the north,
Fruit Heights to the east, and
Farmington, the
county seat
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, to the south. According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, Kaysville has a total area of , of which , or 0.48%, is water.
Demographics
According to the
2020 United States census and
2020 American Community Survey,
there were 32,945 people in Kaysville with a
population density
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of 3,135.3 people per square mile (1,210.5/km
2). Among non-
Hispanic or Latino people, the racial makeup was 29,364 (89.1%)
White
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, 178 (0.5%)
African American
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, 83 (0.3%)
Native American, 321 (1.0%)
Asian, 114 (0.3%)
Pacific Islander
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, 76 (0.2%) from
other races, and 871 (2.6%) from
two or more races. 1,938 (5.9%) people were Hispanic or Latino.
There were 16,469 (49.99%) males and 16,476 (50.01%) females, and the population distribution by age was 12,060 (36.6%) under the age of 18, 17,684 (53.7%) from 18 to 64, and 3,201 (9.7%) who were at least 65 years old. The median age was 29.9 years.
There were 8,958 households in Kaysville with an average size of 3.68 of which 7,844 (87.6%) were families and 1,114 (12.4%) were non-families. Among all families, 6,895 (77.0%) were
married couples
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, 275 (3.1%) were male householders with no spouse, and 674 (7.5%) were female householders with no spouse. Among all non-families, 959 (10.7%) were a single person living alone and 155 (1.7%) were two or more people living together. 4,685 (52.3%) of all households had children under the age of 18. 7,754 (86.6%) of households were
owner-occupied while 1,204 (13.4%) were
renter-occupied.
The median income for a Kaysville household was $103,730 and the median family income was $111,903, with a
per-capita income
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of $34,514. The median income for males that were
full-time employees was $81,057 and for females $44,205. 3.2% of the population and 3.4% of families were below the
poverty line
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.
In terms of education attainment, out of the 17,847 people in Kaysville 25 years or older, 248 (1.4%) had
not completed high school, 2,299 (12.9%) had a
high school diploma
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or equivalency, 6,410 (35.9%) had some college or
associate degree
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, 6,170 (34.6%) had a
bachelor's degree
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, and 2,720 (15.2%) had a
graduate or
professional degree
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.
Points of interest
*
Cherry Hill (amusement park)
*
Davis High School
* House where
John Taylor died
*
LeConte Stewart Artist Museum
*
Utah Botanical Center
*
Kay's Cross
Notable people
*
Rob Bishop
Robert William Bishop (born July 13, 1951) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2003 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he became the dean of Utah's congressional delegation after the retirement of ...
, congressman
*
Henry H. Blood, seventh
governor
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of Utah
*
Mikayla Cluff, professional soccer player
*
James Cowser, former
NFL player
*
Jaxson Dart, college football player
*
Floyd Gottfredson
Arthur Floyd Gottfredson (May 5, 1905July 22, 1986) was an American cartoonist best known for his defining work on the Mickey Mouse (comic strip), ''Mickey Mouse'' comic strip, which he worked on from 1930 until his retirement in 1975. His contri ...
, cartoonist in the
Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame
*
Bode Hidalgo (né Davis), professional soccer player
*
Jared Ward, Olympic marathon runner
References
Further reading
* (1994
"Kaysville"article in th
''Utah History Encyclopedia.''
External links
City of Kaysville official website
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Cities in Utah
Cities in Davis County, Utah
Populated places established in 1850
Ogden–Clearfield metropolitan area
1850 establishments in Utah Territory